Fortress Washington: How The Nation’s Capital Is Prepping For Inauguration Day
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An inauguration rehearsal was canceled because of security concerns
Much of the nation’s capital is on lockdown
Wary about the potential for unrest on Inauguration Day, the National Park Service said it was shutting down national landmarks across the nation’s capital as a security precaution through Jan. 21. That’s just one of the steps taken since the Capitol riots.
State leaders across the country are calling up their National Guard units to protect their Capitol building from protestors Wednesday when President-elect Joe Biden takes the oath of office to become the 46th president of the United States.
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looking through the glove box, any particular packages or documentation that might be in that vehicle for any additional leads in addition to the ones we talked about earlier, the tags, the driver s license, et cetera. so, they want to ensure they do a thorough evaluation. first things first, make sure the vehicle is safe to approach. so law enforcement officers lives are not put in danger, ali. let me go to malcolm nance on the phone with me. what are you thinking of the scene as you look at it? that s a very interesting part, access way to the white house as it s off the old elipse. and it s not actually particularly close to the residence itself. it s close to the old executive office building. that being said, you know, that s a pretty heavily guarded area. and oftentimes, i mean, people can get disoriented on that street. but when you turn into those security barriers, those pop-up anti-truck barriers, it s pretty clear you re in secret service country. so, the question is wh
images that you are over my shoulder. that s right. i don t have a whole lot of information other than to tell you that the chicken is not something that is normally present at that location behind the white house. shepard: but that s not in the secure area. that is a place where people might demonstrate or something? it appears from this vantage point that that would be somewhere in the elipse area, the whole area obviously is under a lot of security, surveillance. possibly not an area where that would be kept physically out of the way. shepard: well, chicken on the lawn. josh lederman, nice to speak with you. thanks very much. looks like there s people on top of the white house. that s part of the ongoing construction. remember, they re redoing the cooling and heating systems. if we remove this spot chatter, they ll see people all over the top of the white house. workers up there. remember, they had to replace the heating and cooling.
size of this crowd. it is a very diverse crowd. seeing a lot of varying ages, moms, kids. even saw a woman carrying her baby. you see women that marched in the 1970s for equality then and they re back here doing it now. what we are anticipating is we ll see some speakers. 50 plus speakers, women from gloria steinem to women of today like scarlett johansson. it is a two mile march. they end near the elipse. it is a sizable crowd. we can t count, but organizers anticipate 250,000 plus women with 600 sister marches happening in cities across the country. alisyn? keep bringing us the developments from there if you would. thank you very much. want to bring in two of the